my 125 gallon planted tank journal

[groovylime]

jaysen, it's looking great.
Keep us updated.

 

[jaysen]

I should've never looked at this thread. Almost put my tank on Craigslist embarrassed me so bad. Beautiful tank, plan on doing my 55 soon as I get the bread for lights.

thats too funny! we all start out small. i hope i just gave you some ideas and motivation.

Nice any updates on what fish are in there?

thanks.
fish: i have a prochilodus, 9 harlequin rasboras, 13 glowlight tetras, 7 red eye tetras,3 juli cories, 1 peppered cory, 7bristlenose plecos, 1oto catfish,10 siamese algae eaters, 2 blue high fin mickey mouse platies, 6 zebra danios, a bunch of marble sailfin mollies, many shrimp, snails. i think i have more types of plants than fish these days.
plants: apon, anubia nana, tiger lotus, water sprite, wisteria, indian fern, java fern, phillipine fern, lace fern, willow hygro, giant hygro, sunset hygro, pennywort, moneywort, hornwort, jungle val, contortionist val, corkscrew val, sag, red crypts, bronze crypts, green crypts, Marsilea Quadrifolia water clover, Lobelia Cardinalis, ludwigia, guppy grass, parrot feather, frogbit, duckweed, rotala, gymnocorinis, and of course java moss. i hope im not forgetting anything.

thanks everyone for your compliments. ideas on improving are always welcome.

 

[Gerber]

Awesome tank. Looks amazing

 

[ryry123]

looks better and better everytime i look at this thread. you make me want to sell all my tanks and put all my money into one like yours.

 

[Inka4040]

You should put red sailfin swords in there and maybe phase out some of those mollies. Seeing as how livebearers really take to that tank, you could probably making a killing selling the offspring as well!

 

[reddawg0000]

Hi I was wondering where I could get a flagtail prochilodus from? Can I get one from a local store such as PetsMart? I have not seen them there though. Please Email me I would really like to get this fish - Globalmikey23@aol.com

jaysen.
Great Setup! I'm a huge flagtail prochilodus fan too. They're awesome fish. I thought you might like to see my guy. His name is Murphy and he's in a planted 75 gallon. I'll be moving him to a 180 gallon in a couple of months.
Here are some pics...

Keep posting more pictures of your tank as it grows in!

 

[jaysen]

update time. got ride of most of the water sprite (3 plants are hidden behind the moss). i have been asked by many on where to get a prochilodus. they come to the stores seasonally and arent very common by me. i will let people know if i see them over the summer and maybe ship them but it wont be cheap. i thank everyone for their compliments. i will be getting rid of most of the black mollies and will be getting new fish soon. i have some bacopa mint coming in this week to fill the gap of the missing water sprite. here are some pics. thank you bk for helping me with them (my camera is a bit off).

 

[Bk718]

great job Jay, a nice thick bacopa bush in the back would definitely look nice.
Let me know when you go to order the fish, I got my tiny list as well:silly:


Btw guys if you have a petland discounts near you, I would check it out for a flagtail. Two of them here have them in stock almost all the time. About $20-30 a fish.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

very nice

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

Wow, Jaysen, that's the biggest shrimp fortress I've ever seen. Maybe a spawning mop for when you get those blue eyed rainbows, eh? Updates!